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I've Been A Lot Of Places, And My Wife, Denise, She Likes A Lot Of The Fancy Restaurants. I'm More Of A Basic Eater. I Still Go Into Cracker Barrel. Those Are The Kind Of People Who Like The Kind Of Music I'm Making.

You Have To Be Tough-skinned And Willing To Accept Criticism, And At The Same Time, Just Try To Do Music That You Like And You Are Proud Of And Not Just Whatever You Think It's Going To Take To Get You On The Radio.

I Always Try To Make The Music That I Like And Think My Fans Will Like.

"after 17" Is A Song I Wrote When My First Daughter Went To College, So That's Kind Of Where I'm At In That Part Of My Life. If You Listen To That Song And Knew Anything About Me, You'd Say, "oh Yeah, He Wrote That About His Daughter," But I Try Not To Write Them That They Are So Specific That They Wouldn't Apply To Anybody That Has A Child.

If Anything Good Came Out Of 9/11, To Me, Was That People Were So Cynical About The World - All You Hear About On The News Is All The Bad Stuff Everyday, But What Was Refreshing To Me Was After That, You Saw How Many Good People There Are Out There. For Every One Bad One, There's A Thousand Good Ones.